Counseling Center To Address Depression, Anxiety

Are you feeling depressed or anxious?

The SHSU Counseling Center will make evaluations on mood
based on quick questionnaire answers during the National
Depression
Screening Day on Wednesday (Oct. 20), from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
in at the Counseling Center.

The free and confidential screening is “not a diagnosis,
per se,” but a global evaluation on moods, such as
depression, anxiety, bi-polar disorder and post-traumatic
stress disorder,
according to Counseling Center director William Metcalfe.

“
If they think they may be feeling more depressed or anxious
than usual, I suggest they come to the National Depression
Screening Day,” Metcalfe said, “and we will make
a recommendation from there.”

Though depression and anxiety aren’t necessarily epidemics
across campus, they are the two primary reasons people visit
the Counseling Center, he said.

In addition, the center will hand out brochures and additional
information on the topics.

Deadline Nears For Travel Tour Of Quilt Festival

The deadline to register for the Travel with SH trip to
the Houston International Quilt Festival is Friday (Oct.
22).

The Nov. 4 trip will include a luncheon and meeting with
festival founder, Karey Bresenhan, who is also an SHSU distinguished
alumna; a private tour of the show floor; a book signing
and behind the scenes chat with Bresenhan; and shopping time.

The tour cost is $75, which includes festival admission,
lunch, a signed book, an official 2004 Quilt Festival 30th
Anniversary pin; and the private tour.

“
This special day tour offers participants the unique opportunity
of rubbing shoulders with one of the most successful women
in the quilting industry,” said Grettle Payne, Travel
with SH coordinator.

Those who want to attend should mail a check to Box 2477,
Huntsville, TX, 77341, or visit the office at 1825 Sycamore.
For more information, call 936.294.4725.

Octubafest Scedules
Four Events

The annual School of Music Octubafest celebration will
take place in the Recital Hall Oct. 18, 21 and 25 at 7:30
p.m.
and Oct.
28
at 7 p.m.

The recital on Monday will feature students
from the euphonium and tuba studios of Henry Howey and
Robert Daniel. A highlight of the evening will be the
world premiere of work written for tuba and piano by a SHSU
alum Ralph Trout.

The faculty recital on Thursday will feature
Howey, euphonium, Daniel, tuba and Jay
Whatley, piano. A wide variety of music will be performed
to include original compositions
for the tuba and the euphonium as well as arrangements.

The Oct. 25 recital will feature chamber ensembles
highlighted by a performance by the SHSU Tuba-Euphonium Ensemble.
The ensemble will be performing a portion of the music they
will perform at the Texas Regional Tuba-Euphonium Conference
to be held in Lubbock at Texas Tech University later this
year.

Octubafest 2004 activities will conclude with a special guest
artist recital featuring Sumner Erickson, former principal
tubist with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. He is an extraordinary
musician who won the job in Pittsburgh at the age of 19 after
one year at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
This recital will begin at 7 p.m. with a masterclass following
at 8:30 p.m.

Athletics
To Recognize TDCJ With Appreciation Day

The Sam Houston State athletic department
will recognize all current and former employees of the Texas
Department of Criminal Justice with an Employee
Appreciation
Day on Saturday (Oct. 23).

Bowers Stadium will celebrate the outstanding service TDCJ employees provide
the community, state, and nation with special TDCJ information booths placed
inside the stadium, a special presentation by the TDCJ Honor Guard, and
a halftime recognition ceremony for all current and retired employees of
TDCJ,
according
to athletic development coordinator Chris Park.

All current and former TDCJ employees and families are eligible to purchase
discounted east side general admission tickets for $2.

These tickets can be purchased in advance at the SHSU Athletic Office between
the hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. or on game day at a special TDCJ ticket window
on the west side of the stadium. To receive tickets at the discounted rate,
employees and former employees should bring their TDCJ identification card.

‘Underpants’ Filled
With Humor, ‘Scandal’

Sexuality, fidelity and hidden desire
are explored in an outrageously humorous manner in “The Underpants,” the
next performance by the department of theatre and dance beginning on
Wednesday (Oct.
20).

Show times for the play, which will run through Saturday (Oct. 23),
will be at 8 p.m. nightly, with a 2 p.m. Saturday matinee, on the
University Theatre Center’s
Showcase Theatre.

“
The Underpants,” written by Carl Sternheim and adapted by Steve Martin,
takes place in 1910 Germany when housewife Louise Maske is turned into an instant
celebrity after her underpants accidentally fall to her ankles during the King’s
Parade.

Her humorless husband, Theo Maske, becomes frenzied when he realizes
that his job is in jeopardy if the king is made aware of this scandal.

Meanwhile, the Maske residence has a room for rent, and two men,
who witnessed the event and decide to woo Louise, try to take full
advantage
of the opportunity
to live near the famous underpants.

The admirers, Versati, a romantic poet, and Cohen, a hypochondriac
Jewish barber, as well as a nosy neighbor, who urges Louise to live
out her
wildest sexual
fantasies while young, add madness to the mayhem.

The play stars Anne Christiansen as Louise, Tom Lamb as Theo, Josh
Amyx as Versati, Bobby Martinez as Cohen, and Sarah Brune as the
nosy Gertrude.

Senior theatre major Connor Bartley will direct the production, with
senior theatre majors Steven Kemp and April Keith designing the set/lights
and
costumes, respectively.
Kandice Harris will be the stage manager.

Tickets are $8 for general admission, and group rates are available.
The show contains adult content, and children under three are not
permitted in the theatre.

For more information, or to reserve tickets, please contact the University
Theatre Center Box Office at 936.294.1339.

MISS To Define Multiculturalism
Through Workshop

The Office of Multicultural and International
Student Services will host “Multiculturalism:
What does it really mean?" on Wednesday (Oct. 20), from
2-3:30 p.m. in Lowman Student Center Room 302.

“
It’s going to be a group discussion where all attendees can talk about
their culture, their upbringings and how it differs from other cultures so that
people can compare and contrast to see how a lot of cultures are really a lot
alike,” said MISS program coordinator Jennifer T. Roberts.

The workshop will be the next in a series of Multicultural Awareness
Certification programs. Students who attend three or more during
a semester can receive
certification, “which
is good for scholarship and resumes, as well as professional development,” according
to Roberts.

MISS will host 10 certification programs this semester, and those
sponsored so far have been well attended, Roberts said.

Light refreshments will be served at the program, and those who
attend are not required to participate in discussion.

Kat Klub
To Host Texas
Hold ‘Em
Tournament

Students, faculty and staff will have the opportunity
to go head-to-head in the Kat Klub’s Texas Hold ‘Em
tournaments on Tuesday and Wednesday (Oct. 19 and 20).

There will be a different tournament for each night to allow
more participants to play, according to Gary Roark, Kat Klub
director.
The tournaments
will be held from 5-9:45 p.m. both days in the Kat Klub,
on the first floor
of the
Lowman Student Center.

“
It is really crazy the way this has happened,” Roark said. “I was
only going to do one a semester, but I have so many people wanting to play that
I’m having to do it every first and third week, twice
a week.

“
It’s very popular, so I’m trying to hit all the students,” he
said.

Set up Las Vegas-style, each tournament will consist of five
to six tables, with 10 people at each table.

“
We start out with $1,000 in play money and there’s no limit,” Roark
said. “You can go in at any time, and the blinds go
up every 30 minutes.”

The tournaments are open to faculty and staff as well as
students, and there is no entry fee. Those who want to play
should sign
up ahead of
time in the
Kat Klub, though sign ups will be held on the tournament
days as well, and participants
can play on both days.

The tournament winners will receive a Kat Klub T-shirt that
tells people he/she is a “Texas Hold ‘Em Champion.”

PC To Host
Columbus Day Celebration, ‘Kill
Bill’ Night

The Program Council will kick off a week
full of events with a Columbus Day celebration on Monday
(Oct. 18). Activities
will begin
at noon
in the Lowman
Student Center
Mall Area.

On Tuesday, the LSC Mall Area will be filled with entertainment
for the “Videogame
Extravaganza,” beginning at 10 a.m.

October birthdays will be celebrated with cake on Wednesday,
at 11 a.m., also in the Mall Area.

Finally, on Friday, the PC will host a “movie night” screening of “Kill
Bill Vol. 2,” the sequel to Quentin Tarantino’s “Vol. 1,” starring
Uma Thurman. The movie will be shown at 7 p.m. in the LSC
Theatre.

For more information on any of these events, call the Program
Council at 936.294.1763.

Writing Workshop To Improve Proofreading
Skills

You have invested a lot of time into your paper. Before
turning it in, you need to do one last thing: check for spelling
and grammatical errors.

To teach students how to review their papers more effectively,
the Writing Center will host a “Proofreading Strategies” workshop
on Monday (Oct. 18).

The workshop, directed by graduate and undergraduate-level
tutors Deirdre Lopez-Marquez, Courtney Howe and Rachel Sanders,
will
be held at 4 p.m.
in the Writing Center,
located in Wilson Building Room 114.

Outdoor Rec To Kayak,
Canoe On Lake Raven

The Outdoor Recreation division of Recreational
Sports will take students, faculty, staff and guests on a
canoe and kayaking
trip
on Lake Raven
on Thursday (Oct.
21) evening.

Those who wish to participate should meet at 6 p.m. at the
Outdoor Recreation Building for a pre-trip meeting. The group
will leave
for Lake Raven
at 6:30 p.m. and are expected to return around 10 p.m.

The cost is $5 for students, $7 for faculty and staff and
$10 for guests, which includes transportation and drinks

The sign-up deadline is at 6 p.m. in Health and Kinesiology
Center Room 104. For more information contact Marvin
Seale at 936.294.3656.

Childs Selected To Exhibit In World Stage
Design Show

The lighting design for the SHSU department of
theatre and dance's 2003 production of “Not About Nightingales,” created
by professor of scenery and lighting design Don Childs, was
recently chosen
to be included
in the World
Stage Design 2005 Gallery Exhibit.

Childs’s design was selected from over 900 submitted
by more than 600 designers by the World Stage Design 2005
International
Selection
Jury,
which
convened in
New York City on September 24-25.

The jury made their decisions based on the images, the production
title, and an indication of geographic region, in categories
such as the Americas,
Europe,
Asia and other. The designs selected for the Gallery Exhibit
represent designers from 35 of the 43 nations participating
in WSD 2005,
including 27 lighting
designs.

"
I'm very pleased that the jury selected me to be in the show, but I am almost
as happy about the jury selecting a former student of mine, John Forbes, to be
part of the exhibit as well," Childs said.

Childs has received numerous awards for lighting design throughout
his career, including the Hollywood Drama Logue, Drama Critics
Award and
Drama Circle
Awards. He designed the lights for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,
winner of the 1987 Prague
Quadrennial Gold Medal for Scenography, a combination of
scenery and lighting design.

In 2000, Childs formed the Don Childs Group, a theatre consulting
and design firm. He continues to work as a freelance designer
and a consultant
while
teaching and designing at Sam Houston State University.